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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
3
A fragment from the Cleveland Leader presents a dramatic poem where a lover vows grand deeds and wealth for a beloved with blue eyes, proclaiming devotion and earthly delights. The beloved hesitates, muttering that all remains for the lover, highlighting unheeded promises and poetic irony.
Florence deserts society for a hunting trip with her father in the Northern woods. She bonds with Jasper Coonradt, a skilled woodsman, who falls in love and unveils a passion that eclipses city life and its frivolities. Florence is drawn to his strength and mystery, as the remote cabin and lake scene become their world.
A woman contemplates staying with a lover as he pledges to build the biggest and finest cabin in the woods. He promises daily effort to learn her happiness and to make her his only world. She agrees, defying disapproving family and a prying press.
A recent celebration at the college of the Propaganda in Rome brought together students from around the world who spoke or chanted in thirty eight languages. Hebrew led, followed by Greek and Latin poetry, then Asian languages including Samaritan Arabic Syriac Ethiopian Coptic Turkish Kurdish Chinese Malabaric Armenian Bacca Zulu Tamul and Vulgar Chaldaic. European tongues followed with Portuguese German Hungarian English Latin Greek French Romanian Norwegian Albanian Irish Scotch Gaelic Polish Dutch and more, as delegates shared linguistic diversity.
The New York automobilist Elliott S. Ranney had a 150 horsepower car built, larger than the then practical 100 hp. He attempted to start the giant machine, found the crank unbudgeable even for his strength, and finally exclaimed with relief, Thank God!
A Phillips Exeter Academy tale tells how Professor Wentworth, famed as Bull Wentworth, challenged students to spell their full names on opening day. When John Jay Brown’s name appeared, he demanded the middle initials spelling J, prompting the student to answer J a y and the class to laugh at the joke.
Garden Magazine notes plants face many pests across two classes. Biters and suckers require different tactics. Poisoning food harms biters, while juice-sucking pests must be slain in open battle with targeted methods.
Johnny writes about twins as a double baby that arrives early morning during a sleeper’s best licks sleep. He says twins bring excitement and a doctor, and when they misbehave the mother punishes both to keep fair. He jokes that he would trade twins for a billy goat or mouse any day.
The Paris piece contrasts opulent city wealth with widespread poverty. It cites a Petit Parisien report about five children abandoned by a widow and left at a police station, then describes harsh factory work in a goldsmith shop where women labor long hours for meager pay, highlighting Paris health data showing high deaths and misery amid luxury.
A brief exchange contrasts the moralist and Wise on self regard. The moralist argues that lack of self-respect invites contempt from others, while Wise counters that excessive self-regard also repels respect from others.
A promoter and an English visitor witness a playful Wall Street baseball scene on Hanover Street. A youngster’s triple into an iron shutter leads to a grand misadventure ending with a home run into an apple cart and a hurried chase for a steamer to British Guiana.
The piece notes social notions of women and hair, marriage, and flirtation with witty quotes from Mollentrave. It contrasts feminine habits with politics and courtship, suggesting women’s self presentation and allure shape social life.
A Cincinnati Inquirer reminiscence links spring to Easter urges and seasonal scenes. The piece humorously contrasts a weary husband muttering rats with a rooter quitting fifty cents, a poet counting nickels, and locals preparing for boarders and fishing days as warm weather arrives.
Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton resisted a political maneuver at the polls by tearing his name from the ticket and declaring he cannot vote for someone he knows too well. A man behind him echoed the sentiment, tearing off his own name for the same reason. The anecdote highlights Morton’s sagacity and the election context surrounding his victory over Edward Everett by a single vote.
H F Wattson hailed as the Sweet Potato King of Oklahoma raised 6000 bushels last year and plans to plant fifty acres this season. Mustang township is the state's leading sweet potato area with expected larger acreage than ever before.
George Kenman, allied with Gen. Nogi at Port Arthur siege, says the most remarkable Japanese trait is their ability to stick where they have gained a foothold. He emphasizes persistence and stubborn defense as defining fighting characteristics.
A playful dialogue contrasts romantic devotion with hesitation as she questions dying for love and he declares his love as eternal and unfailing, insisting his commitment defies mortal limits. The exchange ends with a confident assertion of unwavering affection.
A Dickinson county farmer owns the sole remaining $10,000 government greenback and refuses to permit its retirement. The piece notes the currency's unique status and the owner's stance on retirement.
The text surveys a compulsory national education system in Japan, peach and apricot stones burning for heat in California, Moorish bread laws to curb waste, a London bird skin trade for hats and feathers, and a note on soda water easing hunger via carbonation affecting the solar plexus in the stomach.
A 1905 Hungarian article notes Johann Lewalter’s view that Yankee Doodle originated as a Schwalm district country dance in Kur Hesse. It links the tune to Hessian troops’ war music and suggests Hessian recruits carried the tune to America, where it became popular.
Sir Edward Grey urged in a London literary dinner that productive reading occurs mainly between twenty one and thirty five. He noted children may read precociously but most outgrow rubbish, while minds mature from about thirty five to forty, turning from verse to prose as judgment ripens.
The Bayonne Portienl Study Club asks military men how a woman should salute the flag. Suggestions vary from placing the right hand across the breast with a bow to a handkerchief drop. General Miles, ex Secretary Long, and Admiral Dewey discuss options but no consensus emerges.
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